Category: Pictures from Italy

  • Dreaming of Venice

    The chapter on Venice in Pictures from Italy — which Dickens sets up as a long…

  • Only the poor

    . . . In the pleasant Cemetery at Bologna, I found myself walking next Sunday morning,…

  • The view from the Palazzo Peschiere

    . . . There lies all Genoa, in beautiful confusion, with its many churches, monasteries, and…

  • The wild fancies on the walls and ceilings

    Thanks to Marian for finding pictures of the Palazzo Pieschere at The Victorian Web. This one…

  • The Palace of the Fishponds

    There is not in Italy, they say (and I believe them), a lovelier residence than the…

  • At a ruined palazzo

    I loitered to and fro, under a colonnade, forming two sides of a weedy, grass-grown court-yard,…

  • In Genoa

    The view, as I have said, is charming; but in the day you must keep the…

  • Oops

    Dickens is still in France, and looking at a "curious clock" in Lyons Cathedral: There was…

  • Don’t be alarmed!

    So, the Dickens family isn't even in Italy yet — they're making their way there from…

  • How Mr. Dickens spent his vacation

    My desk is piled high with books about Dickens (and here come two more! Yikes!). But…